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Accelerate your business
Chef is an open-source automation platform built to address the hardest infrastructure challenges on the planet. Chef gives you the power and flexibility you need to move faster in a complex world - from rapid provisioning and deployment of servers to the automated delivery of applications and services—at any scale.
How you use Chef is up to you. Here are the most common use cases
Configuration Management
Build a framework to consistently deploy servers and scale applications throughout your infrastructure. Implement policies to define and enforce software distribution, patch management, operating system and application compliance, security, and ad-hoc change processes. Get notifications around Chef runs to enable data gathering for trending analysis of usage. Create a blueprint of your infrastructure – so it can be built or rebuilt consistently from scratch in minutes.
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Cloud Management
Automate and manage public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure to meet peak demand with no interruptions in service by rapidly provisioning and de-provisioning servers. Easily automate cloud infrastructure using plugins for Amazon Web Services, HP Cloud, VMware vCloud, Microsoft Windows Azure, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, Eucalyptus, Openstack and many others.
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Continuous Delivery
Reliably release high-quality software quickly, by automating the build, test, configuration and deployment functions. Give your organization the ability to make continuous incremental change with minimal risk. Get applications and updates to market in days or hours, instead of weeks or months.
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Infrastructure as Code
Chef provides a flexible model for reuse by enabling users to model infrastructure as code to easily and consistently configure and deploy infrastructure across any platform. Create a blueprint of your infrastructure with Chef that enables you to build or rebuild, automatically in minutes or hours – not weeks or months.
Manage your infrastructure at massive scale
Don’t let scale and complexity hold you back. Chef enables you to manage tens of thousands of nodes - along of their related dependencies - effortlessly.
Get consistency you can count on
Build and rebuild infrastructure consistently with Chef. Automate more than 2,000 end-to-end tests that ensure the Chef server is installed and working properly. Test the integrity of potential changes to any resource or environment in your infrastructure by modeling them before any actual modifications are made.
Jumpstart your automation
Take advantage of over 800 reusable cookbooks to automate your infrastructure. The Chef community has written and shared hundreds of cookbooks that can provide a fast and elegant way to get a jump-start on automating your infrastructure with Chef.
Better understand your systems
Automatically store a searchable repository of information about each new system configured with Chef - including platform, memory, CPU, networking, and kernel data. Quickly find data about your system resources in the cloud or data center. Take action on that data by creating powerful search-based cookbooks.
True enterprise integration
Easily deploy Chef across all mainstream enterprise compute infrastructures through integration with Solaris, one of the most common legacy Unix implementations, in addition to popular Linux and Windows platforms.
Deploy Chef Anywhere
Private Chef can be run in your secure datacenter, or you can use Hosted Chef to take advantage of our scalable hosted solution. Both versions include standard support and a free trial for up to five nodes.
Plans & Pricing
| Launch | Standard | Premium | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly Fees | $120 | $300 | $600 |
| Nodes | 20 | 50 | 100 |
| Standard Support | Included | Included | Included |
| Onsite Training | Available | Available | Available |